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The local authorities of ORDLO (“certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts,” the official designation of the occupied territories in the east of Ukraine) were appointed by Russia to control the local population and economy....

Russia controls the situation in its proxy state in eastern Ukraine, the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) via Russian-established law enforcement agencies, or siloviki, which are at the top of the pyramid...

The Russian government intends to stop the “humanitarian assistance to certain territories” in favor of financing projects in Crimea and Kaliningrad, with “certain territories” meaning the “Donetsk and Luhansk...

What are the origins of the armed conflict that has been raging in eastern Ukraine since 2014? Which role did Russia play in the emergence and escalation of the originally unarmed confrontation, in the Donets Basin (Donbas), after the...

On 25 October, the contents of the hacked mailbox of Vladislav Surkov, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, made headlines all over the world. Known as #SurkovLeaks, the 1GB email dump of [email protected], apparently managed...

One of the aspects of the latest upsurge in US-Russian diplomatic exchanges about Ukraine that has not attracted much attention as it should but that may prove to be the most important at least as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned is...

Russia has finally abandoned the idea of “independence” for the eastern regions of Ukraine and is now trying to “push them back” under Kyiv’s control, the Russian publication Novaya Gazeta (NG) reports,...

Vladislav Surkov, a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is already making plans and channeling funds to Ukraine in order to wield influence and create a pro-Kremlin group in the Verkhovna Rada, the Russian political scientist...

Vladislav Surkov was the man behind the scenes who directed all actions of the Russian militants and arrivals in the Donbas, especially this spring and summer, Igor Girkin (Strelkov) wrote on antikvariat.ru, an online forum for...

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